‘Creepshow’ Finds Death in Art, Spiders, and “The Last Tsuburaya”

Halfway through Steven Spielberg’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” Indiana Jones sneaks into the mythical map room and discovers the location of the Well of Souls. Harrison Ford’s iconic character does this by placing Abner Ravenwood’s amulet onto a staff, allowing the sun to shine a beam through the crystal in the amulet’s center. The…

“The Vigil” is an exercise in horror that effectively builds its character and narrative tensions in the first half only to tighten its grip for its lean remaining minutes. Character actor on-the-rise Dave Davis stars as Yakov, a young man who lives in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community. A horrible event has caused him to step…

Growing up is harder than expected in Paper Spiders, the latest from co-writer/director Inon Shampanier. Melanie has the usual teenage problems: getting through boring classes, deciding whether to take the not-so-great advice of her friends and navigating a budding romance. But on top of that, she’s also worried about her mother, who she has a close…

SXSW’s eclectic festival has gone virtual for this year and it could be amongst the last all-digital versions of the major film festivals as a promising global vaccine rollout suggests a healthy return to physical editions after the summer. The programmers at SXSW 2021 have wonderfully fulfilled their remit of showcasing high-quality, unique and innovative…

“I’m not very good with temptation…” Blue Fox Entertainment has revealed an official trailer for an indie horror film titled The Mistress, from filmmaker Greg Pritikin. This premiered at a couple of regional film festivals last year, and will be getting a VOD release at the end of July this summer. Newlyweds move into their…

On the Mongolian steppe, there are predators, there are prey, and there are the bankhar. These large, powerful dogs weigh up to 125 pounds, with shaggy, thick coats that give them a bear-like appearance. For 15,000 years, bankhar dogs have been the guardians of the steppe. In these grasslands, sheep and other livestock kept by…